Early May.

Taking advantage of the start of the workshop, Ning Qingxi was idle and accompanied Wang Xiujuan to the field to see the fish and rice breeding for a while, to see the vegetables and fruits planted by Wang Xiujuan for a while, and to see the injuries for a while.

On the other side, Lu Xuan, the person in charge of the workshop, was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground.

With the experience of using it in the first battle, Chang Yuan attaches the highest importance to the workshop.

In addition to recruiting new recruits every day, I will come to check the progress of the construction of Taoyuan Village in my spare time.

"Master Lu, how long is it expected that the relocation will start on the mountain?" Chang Yuan walked over with his hands behind his back, looked at Master Lu who was directing everyone to work, and asked.

Lu Xuan was awakened by the sudden voice, and hurriedly turned his head and bowed to salute, "General, there are really not enough people, if there are more people, it is estimated that it will be faster for a few days, if only these people are currently helping, it is estimated that it will take a month." ”

A month is not enough, Chang Yuan still thinks that the workshop will continue to make more gunpowder for him to march and fight, if he is relocated, it will take a month, and these craftsmen will have to do other work when they are relocated, who has time to make gunpowder for him?

"Master Lu, how many more people do you need here?" Chang Yuan asked.

Lu Xuan's bitter face was overjoyed when he heard this, "General, the more the better, at least two hundred more craftsmen will have to come." ”

Craftsmen in these years are not easy to find, craftsmen are privately owned, Chang Yuan's way to obtain craftsmen is nothing more than to capture them from others, even if a few people who rely on carpenters and blacksmiths for a living, they will not expose their skills when they flee, because if they are caught, they can only be sold as slaves for the rest of their lives.

"Is it okay to be a craftsman? Can a carpenter stonemason do it too? Chang Yuan asked.

Most of the work in the workshop is to build those tools that have never appeared in Ning Qingxi, so in fact, it is just a craftsman, no matter what kind of craftsman it is, anyway, as long as there is experience in craftsmanship, Lu Xuan will not pick it.

"Back to the general, it's okay, as long as you have experience as a craftsman, you can use it as long as you have been a craftsman and train here a little." After Lu Xuan finished speaking, he paused again, he thought that there was still a lot of manpower needed on the mountain, "General, another thousand people need to be allocated on the mountain, there are not enough people to dig the mountain, if you want to complete all the fortifications in a short time, you need some more people." ”

"Okay, I'll send someone over later, and you'll be responsible for the arrangements." Chang Yuan wanted to go back after speaking, and when he was halfway there, he fixed his pace again, simply turned over on his horse, and led people to ride a horse towards Jiuwan Mountain outside the city, and his destination was the Taoyuan Village fortification office in Jiuwan Mountain.

The plan that Ning Qingxi presented to him was very clear, concise and to the point, Chang Yuan had read it once, and then with Ning Qingxi's explanation, it was clear what Ning Qingxi wanted to achieve.

If Taoyuan Village is rebuilt, Jiuwan Mountain will be the most important of all the cities in Changyuan in the future.

Although it was time-consuming, laborious, and food-intensive to lay those tracks, Chang Yuan knew that it was all worth it.

They used gunpowder in the attack on Jinzhou City, and presumably the news would not be long before the news spread all over the world, after all, not everyone was captured at that time, and some people still escaped.

At that time, the eyes of those who have a heart will definitely be all placed on him, Chang Yuan has to hurry up and prepare, and at the expense of all manpower and material resources, he must relocate the craftsman workshop in the short term.

"General." As soon as Chang Yuan's men arrived, someone immediately came up to receive them.

"You go and get busy with yours, I'm just here to take a look at random, don't delay the fortifications." After Chang Yuan finished speaking, he thought about it again and said, "Just find someone to show us." ”

It's full of workers in full swing, and he really doesn't know where he's doing what, even if he's read the plan.

"Yes, General." When the steward heard this, he bent down and retreated, and after a while, a young and clever man came to receive Chang Yuan and them.

Chang Yuan and a few people walked forward with their hands behind their backs, and the group led the horses up the mountain, walked to one place and asked another.

"What's going on over there?" Chang Yuan asked, pointing to a few people carrying gravel not far away.

The clever man beside him bent down and replied, "The good general knows that they are carrying gravel to fill the track," and without waiting for Chang Yuan to ask, he explained: "These gravel are laid under the track, and then the sleepers on the track can reduce the vibration of the minecart passing by." ”

Chang Yuan understood as soon as he heard him, and the footsteps of several people kept going up, and along the way were craftsmen laying tracks and carrying various materials.

He walked in front of the mountain, at this time the whole mountain had been hollowed out in half, and the stone wall of the excavated tunnel was covered with cement, no longer like the tunnel that Ning Qingxi and they stumbled upon at the beginning, and it was not a problem for five or six people to pass side by side.

Chang Yuan walked along the narrow gap to the Taoyuan Village, and saw that the people who built the city wall were busy, and after walking around a little, he went back satisfied.

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"Are you going to join the army? General Chang has recruited troops, and I heard that their treatment as soldiers is also very good, they eat enough every day, and they still have meat to eat when they train, and if they win the battle, maybe they can reward you with some silver to marry a daughter-in-law. ”

The news of Chang Yuan's recruitment has been released for a few days, but at first it was just a few people who went to Chang Yuan, and it wasn't until Chang Yuan began to let people spread the word about their treatment in the army, so that more and more people came to line up to serve as soldiers.

"Really? If you win a battle, you can still have silver? ”

"Look at what you said, what am I lying to you for? Didn't the people who General Chang brought out before win the battle? My cousin, who runs in the restaurant, told me that those people in the restaurant have said that those who win will be rewarded with silver! And the wounded soldiers are all well housed, and there is also an injury allowance! ”

"Do you have a military pay on weekdays?"

"Can General Chang lack that little bit of our stuff? They must be paid! But I don't think there is a military pay. ”

As soon as this man said this, everyone else was curious and looked at him in surprise, "What do you mean?" ”

"You don't know yet, the big soldiers at the bottom are all paid by the leaders, and only when they are small leaders do not lead the salaries, but do you know what they get? They are taking the field as a military salary! Every year! ”

"What? Do you give them land every year? ”

"Isn't that what a drop? If you work in the army for a few years, your family will become a small landlord! Although ordinary soldiers cannot use the field as a military salary, they will also be rewarded with acres of land for their combat bravery or meritorious service. ”

When the others heard this, they immediately gasped, and then one after another people left.

No matter how stupid the person was, he also reacted later, and there were fewer and fewer people around the man, looking at the direction, many people were running in the direction of recruitment.